The title to this Think Tech Hawaii video says it all.
Grassroot Institute Hawaii’s Dr. Kelii Akina hosts the Goldwater Institute’s Timothy and Christina Sandefur for a talk on the status of property rights, and what’s being done about it.
[Barista’s note:we’ve been on the road the past week after the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference
Here are the remarks we were to have presented today, the second day of the 2016 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, being held in The Hague, Netherlands at the International Court of Justice. The panel subject was “Property Rights in Intangible Assets.” We were unable to deliver them due to the panel running of of time
Several years ago, William & Mary Law School’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference departed its usual Williamsburg, Virginia venue and held the event in Beijing. Holding the conference there allowed U.S. legal scholars and property law practitioners to share ideas and compare our ways with our PRC counterparts. The event was a great success.
Now
The complete agenda, faculty list, and other information (including registration and early and group discounts) for the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference is now up and ready.
The conference will be held January 26-28, 2017, at the Westin San Diego. Please consider joining us for the premier national conference on
Recall that in the wake of the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London, at least one of the Connecticut Supreme Court justices whose previous ruling was upheld, expressed his regrets. Others have made similar remarks.
Well, here may be a chance for the Connecticut Supreme Court
Here’s the recording of the October 6, 2016 oral arguments in
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Here’s the amici brief we’re filing in a case which we told you about earlier, involving the way attorneys’ fees get calculated when a statute allows fee shifting.
This is the afterglow of a rails-to-trails takings case, in which the property owners are entitled under the Uniform Relocation Act to attorneys’ fees. We like.
We all know that the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Kelo is lousy. See “Kelo at 10: Still Stinks, And A Decade Has Not Lessened The Odor.”
Or at least most of us know that. But other than crying in our beer, or trying to get the case overruled (efforts continue!)
We were getting ready to dig into the California Court of Appeal’s opinion in 616 Croft Ave., LLC v. City of West Hollywood, No. B266660 (Sep. 23, 2016), when our ABA State and Local Government Law colleague Bryan Wenter wrote up the case on his firm’s land use blog, saving us the trouble.